It has been a hard and long 16 years.With all the immigrant populations counted all that was left was deciding who had won the ward’s popular vote. Ward 13 was hardest fought, but after three political chips, and a prior power move to redistribute the immigrant cubes, he did it. “I win,” said Michael Holzer, D.C. Game Night’s weekly game organizer.

The Washington metropolitan area has one of the largest Indian communities in America. But as the group tries to spread its classical dance beyond its own population, artists have to overcome their own naivete and struggle to educate the general public about their creative traditions.